I don't know how to say this but I think I'm in love with you ..
By. simpleee.meee
Disclaimer. AII don't own it . x)
Chapter 14: Happy Birthday, Troy:
"Welcome to Troy Bolton's 16th birthday party everybody!" Nevaeh and Dante, the hosts for the day greeted the crowd that filled the whole of the Bolton's backyard.
"If you will please, seat yourself on one of the chairs and we'll get started right away!" Nevaeh said into the microphone, expertly holding a palm card with the microphone.
Everyone rushed to one of the seats next to their friends. I flashed Nevaeh and Dante a thumbs-up and sat down next to Gabriella and Geraldine. Gabriella looked pretty as well was Geraldine. Everyone that was here at the party looked fabulous, although it was only a smart casual party.
"Thank you for coming to today's event," Dante started.
"It means so much to us, and to our baby cousin." Nevaeh finished.
"If you're confused with what's happening, either ask me, Dante Bolton or Nevaeh Bolton." Dante pointed at himself and then at Nevaeh.
"Or just ask any of the Bolton or Mae cousins." Nevaeh added.
"The bathroom is inside." Dante once again announced.
"There are big poster signs that will lead to the bathroom and to various places of this house." Nevaeh smiled cheerfully.
"Now let us start, without much further ado." Dante stated flawlessly and motioned for Nevaeh to say her line.
"We give you, the birthday boy- Troy Bolton!" Nevaeh turned 15 degrees on the stage the Bolton's had borrowed and Troy came out from behind the curtain, the banner and the balloons and onto the stage and joined Nevaeh and Dante.
I was glad I admitted my feeling for Troy earlier, because if I hadn't then I would have fallen in love with him all over again. I shook my head of any thoughts like this and decided to relax and enjoy the party.
"How do you feel?" Nevaeh asked.
"I feel great!" Troy replied and smiled.
"What do you think of the guests that came today?" Dante asked with a mischievous smile.
"They're all lovely. Especially a fine lady I know." Troy said with a twinkle in his eyes, looking over in my direction.
Geraldine nudged me; I nudged her back without looking up at her face. Gabriella knew that something was up because she lowered her voice into a whispere and asked what was going on. I ignored her and listened as the crowd quietened down from the chorus of "Oooh"s.
"Troy, please sit in the seat over there, by the middle, where the table with cardboards are. This will be the first game and a gift kind of a thing. Camera men, everything rolling?" Nevaeh checked.
"Ok, here's the instruction. People are going to perform something for you as a complimentary gift for you birthday and you get to judge who's the best and who's the worst." Dante said with a smile.
"The first contestant is-." Nevaeh paused.
"The cheerleaders of East high!" Dante and Nevaeh both said at the same time on purpose and moved apart to let the cheerleaders onto the stage.
They were dressed in red and as soon as the loud and fast music started to blare out from the speaker system, they started to move to the music. They threw people up I the air, the loaded them in and out, elevated, and did all these stunts that I knew were banned in American Cheerleading competitions. When the music stopped after 2 minutes of non-stop action the Cheer leader girl chanted, "From our team to yours."
Haven't I heard that somewhere?
"H-A-P-P-Y-B-I-R-T-H-D-A-Y T-R-O-Y!" They said one at a time.
That was when I realized that it was last year, when Troy's basketball team cheered the drama club people by doing what the cheerleaders did, except with their shirts not just flimsy cardboards. Nevaeh and Dante asked Troy for the score. He lifted up a 9.5. The cheerleaders pretended to faint, but then the leader just stood up walked up to Troy and whispered something in his ears. I scoffed.
"Jealous much?" Geraldine whispered.
"Pssh! Me? Of her?" I asked back.
"Uhhh yeah?" She gave me an odd look.
"Why would I be?" I raised my eyebrows and turned back to Nevaeh.
Next it was Chad. He had prepared a speech. I must say I was impressed. Here he was giving a speech that made him look super smart. I smiled at him. Troy was so pleased, he came up to the stage gave Chad a brotherly hug and walked off back to his seat. There he raised a 10. We all laughed as Chad pretended to wipe a tear off.
"Next is The Cousins plus Sharpay Evans." Dante said excitedly.
The Cousins was a name given to the whole Bolton/Mae's that weren't married. We all walked up to the stage excluding Dante and Nevaeh. We then started the drama/skit, which was all the time Troy stuffed up. This was put together just before the party, so it was pretty rough. But we tried our bestest. Some of the people even laughed when they saw some funky scenes. After a while we read out some of our birthday wishes for him and of us congratulating him. Then RJ, short for Ryan-Jason, picked up the card we prepared with our signatures and everything, handed it to me and I was urged off the stage by Joy. RJ's sister.
"Happy 16th birthday Best Friend." I exclaimed, gave him the card and stood there not knowing what to do.
He stood up and pulled me into a hug. I was taken by surprise and Geraldine and some of The Cousins snickered knowing what was going through my mind. I hugged him back, buried my face into his shoulder and took a sniff out of his shirt then. Now that smelled good. It felt as if the world had stopped just for the two of us. I smiled into his shoulder. I pulled back and quickly ran off to my seat, not even wanting to see the score.
"Ooh! 10 plus!" Nevaeh ooh-ed into the microphone.
Dante, Nevaeh and some of the married cousins of Troy's created a slide show together and they showed it. It was so sweet and cute. It was the so-far life timeline of Troy. From when he was a small cute baby to now.
"After a break we'll come back here for the real games." Dante said as the first part of the party was coming to an end.
"Restore your food status. The food is great! Be back here in 1 hour." Nevaeh added.
They supervised the whole of the crowd going inside for food. I hung around with Nevaeh behind, helping her pack things up for the first part of the party. Troy practically threw himself to Dante and Nevaeh and said thank-you's over and over again.
"Don't forget to thank Sharpay." Dante said, emphasizing my name.
"Oh yeah."
With that Troy pulled me into a tighter hug than before. I could feel my face blush. Nevaeh disappeared with Dante and we were left alone, outside. I quickly pulled back and walked inside. I didn't feel hungry so I just picked a couple of food up here and there. The cake wasn't supposed to arrive until 6:00 anyway.
"Ok, everyone! It would be fantastic if we could get on with the second part of the party now! Come come!" Geraldine was the host now. Nevaeh swapped roles for the second part.
"That's right! Gather in! Gather in!" DJ, who nicknamed himself DJ after RJ, was the other host.
"We're now going to start the second part of the party!" Geraldine started.
"It's going to be one heck of a game!" DJ yelled into the microphone with excitement.
"We're going to be playing," Geraldine let DJ finish, "AMAZING RACE!"
The crowd went wild. Although I wasn't in an awkward status with my best friend, I couldn't help but feel happy and excited for this game. Even some of the aunt's of Troy's who came to Albuquerque directly, were looking forward to the game.
"Ok the pair listing will go forever, so we posted it up on the wall here." DJ announced.
"There are four copies posted, please don't crowd in front of one particular list." Geraldine added.
"Who am I with?" I asked Gabriella, who had just checked out the board.
"With the birthday boy!" She exclaimed with glee.
"You?" I asked, confused.
"No. You." With that she pushed me off towards Troy who had just taken a look at the pair listing.
"So I guess we're together." I mumbled.
"Yeah." He trailed off.
"Now, we paid extra fees to make this perfect, so please make the best of it!" DJ said.
"Please make your way to the starting line, which is located right over here." Geraldine pointed to a line, which was right in front of the stage.
Everyone gathered around. We all knew the rules.
"Now, do I have to go over rules?" Geraldine asked the enthused crowd.
"No!" We chorused back.
"Well you know what to do?" She asked.
"Yes!" We chorused back.
"There's a prize to the first comers!" DJ yelled.
"Ready Set Go!" Geraldine yelled.
She and DJ could not play because they planned this along with Nevaeh, Dante, Destiny and Chris. We took off to the first clue box. All it said was go through the house to look for the second clue. Troy and I shot off, looking for the second clue.
"Found it!" Troy pulled a piece of white envelope from under the couch and tore it open.
There was money, map of the neighborhood and the next block and the ever so precious clue. It said, walk your way to the local park, give Serena your clue and go through the obstacle course number one. Two members must both work together and get through it together. There were the basics of an obstacle course. The tire set, rope climbing. Crawling through mud.
"Aah!" I screamed as I misplaced my hand in the mud and slipped.
"Are you ok?" Troy turned back.
"Yes, go, go, GO!" I motioned for him to go.
We had to then crawl through a tunnel, make our way towards Albuquerque Hall, where there would be another set of obstacles. But it was more civil, like popping balloons, whacking the piñata until it cracked open and running a three-legged race with a raw egg on one spoon held by our mouth. We had to do the three-legged race three times, since the egg, cracked due to us falling down.
"Let's go!" I yelled as Nico handed us the next clue.
"Wait, I wanna check out the clue first." Troy calmly, ripped the white envelope open.
"But, we can do that while we're walking!"
"But where will we walk to if we don't know where to go to?" He asked.
"But, Keisha and Lemuel already left!" I cried out.
"Hey, calm down!" He said, grabbing my wrist gently as if putting a leash on a puppy.
I let myself out of his grasp. I had forgotten all about the awkwardness between us. But now it had all returned.
"You must take the bus to the Albuquerque oval, and there you must run halfway, up to the tree, and read the clue there. It will tell you what you have to do next, here is the bus fare." Troy read.
"Ok. What are we waiting for?" I said excitedly.
I ran across the small yard of the hall, and skipped towards the bus stop with Troy tagging along behind me.
"Hurry up birthday boy!" I gathered up my courage to yell out at him.
It was getting so hot now. I took off my pink zip-up bolero and tied it around my shoulder. It was muddy here and there but still looked presentable. Troy ran and caught up to me and he also took his jacket off.
"I see Keisha! And Lemuel!" I shouted and dragged Troy along, forgetting about any awkwardness.
"Oh hi you guys." Keisha greeted us.
"Hi." I said curtly.
Oh my gosh. My competitive side was taking control of me, again!
"Sorry." I apologized.
The bus came just in time and Troy and I got on the bus after Keisha and Lemuel. We paid our fare and sat down right in the back not wanting to attract attention with our dirty clothes.
"So, Troy how is New York?" Keisha asked.
"I dunno. It's ok I guess. How's the countryside?" Troy asked back.
"So, you're Lemuel?" I asked Lemuel, trying to strike up a conversation as Keisha and Troy kept talking.
"Yeah. I work for Keisha's dad."
"So you're not one of the cousin?"
"No." He shook his head.
"Oh, ok."
"Albuquerque Oval!" The driver said.
We all got off. Keisha immediately ran with Lemuel and she was a fair sprinter. She was up to the trees in no time and she took on the white envelope and then sped away further into the oval with Lemuel.
"Oh my gosh, did you see that?" I asked Troy out of shock.
"Yeah. She does athletics on weekends."
"Oh. No wonder."
"What are we waiting for?" He asked.
I tried to run as fast as Keisha, but it was hard. I had to borrow Nevaeh's sneakers, which were a bit big for me. And the next thing I knew there was a throbbing pain in my ankle and with a yelp I had fallen to the grassy floor. Tears were starting to blur my vision as I tried standing up.
"Are you ok?" Troy was there in a flash and he was next to me, inspecting my ankle.
"I think you sprained it." He came to a conclusion.
"I'm ok." With that I wiped away tears away from my face and tried to stand up.
The pain was intense. I fell back down on the grass again. I looked up to see Troy shaking his head.
"You're not gonna be able to walk on that ankle." He stated like a doctor.
"I know!" I yelled at him with frustration, for ruining his party.
"Do you want me to piggy back you?" He asked nervously, taking a step back.
"Whatever."
He helped me to my good foot and hoisted me up and piggy backed me. We walked out of the oval. Troy crossed the road and walked towards the taxi stand and to his dismay found out that it was closed. There was no bus until 4:50 pm and my sprained ankle was swelling really fast.
"I guess we'll have to walk." He said.
"Mm-hmm."
"I'm sorry." I apologized, and wiped the sweat off his forehead with the sleeve of my forearm.
"It's ok." He replied and I could hear him smile.
"So do you have to walk?" I asked.
"Yeah. There are no buses or taxis and if we don't get a good look at that ankle," He shrugged slightly.
"Thanks Troy." I said after a while.
"For what?" He asked.
At that tears started pouring out. I felt sad that Troy didn't know that I was thankful for him. For him being my bestest friend in the world.
"For being the bestest friend in the world." I hiccupped.
"It's ok, it's the least I can do." He smiled.
After that, I fell asleep on his back. I slept pretty late last night at the cousins/best friends' sleepover camp. And crying always took something out of you.
When the finished walking home ..
"What happened?" I woke up to my mom shouting, but kept my eyes shut.
"Oh, she fell and hurt her ankle." I heard Troy reply.
"Why is she unconscious?"
"She's not unconscious, she fell asleep."
"Troy, what are you doing back so early?" It was Mrs. Bolton this time.
"Mom, I really don't have time for that, can you just please open the gate?" Troy said rather frustrated.
"Troy Bolton!" His mom said in her warning voice and I could hear the door creak open.
"Thanks mom."
I could hear the people that were left behind follow us. I saw in the corner of my closed eyes Nevaeh and Dante walking together, whispering. Mrs. Bolton and my mom were rushing ahead, trying to open doors and make a room available.
"Oh my, we really don't have any room. And I do not think she is in a state of condition to sleep outside, in the tent, again. What will we do?" I heard Mrs. Bolton freak out.
"Uhh, how about my room?" I heard Troy answer with spunky attitude.
"Drop that attitude Mister." I heard his mom snap back at him.
We went upstairs, they opened the doors and I was softly laid on his bed. I could feel my shoes being taken off my swollen foot and let me tell you this, it hurt like crazy. Then I felt cold something being slopped on, dried and bandaged. I managed not to flinch.
"You go freshen up Troy. After all it is still your party." I heard Mrs. Bolton say.
"Ok."
"So when do you have to leave?" Mrs. Bolton asked my mom.
"In about 20 minutes. I think I should cancel instead." I heard my mom say.
"No. You have to go. It's your anniversary. You even said Sharpay and Ryan agreed on it. Just go, I'll look after them." I heard Mrs. Bolton reply.
"Really?" My mom asked.
"Yes, now go get ready."
"Bye Sharpay, baby." My mom said, flipped my fringe back and kissed me on the forehead.
Everyone left the room and someone walked in. I cracked my eyes a tiny bit to see who it was. It was Troy. I shut my eyes immediately.
"I know you're awake." He stated.
"What do you want?" I asked nicely.
"Where's the love and the respect. After all I'm a week and a half older than you are! I just wanna talk. How's your ankle?" He asked.
"It's throbbing like crazy."
"Aww, poor baby." He pouted.
"Aww." I said sarcastically.
"Hey Sharpay." He said.
"Yeah?"
"What I said on that day .."
"What day?"
"Sharpay." He said. He caught me red-handed.
"Yeah .."
"I really did what I meant, I just want to know what you're thinking."
"Troy!" Someone from downstairs called his name.
"You better go. Tell me how the party goes, later, ok?"
"Ok." He said with hesitance and walked out of the room ..
One final thought before I go to the land of nods, he is so cute!
Author's Note: Sorry for the queality of this chapter. ITs so xp . It's rushed and doens't seem very nice does it? I'm SORRY . x)